Lead Product Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION: Job Title: Lead Product Engineer Employment Type: 6 months Contract, Hybrid Work Location: Johannesburg, CBD JOB CONTEXT: Are you ready to take on an exciting challenge that impacts the international banking community? Were looking for a talented individual to be our lead our Product Engineer. You will develop customized solutions tailored to our unique needs, drive our development goals in a timely and cost-effective manner, and collaborate with a dynamic team to ensure successful project execution. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: DevOps: Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve Complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions. Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process. Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions. Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven /cross domain environment. Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions. Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience. Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins /Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production). Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services. Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.). Apply version control and related concepts and techniques. Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines. Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications. Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages,containerization etc. Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization. People: Coach & mentor other engineers. Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team. Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization. Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team. Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption). Risk & Governance: Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment). Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk /governance frameworks. Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals). Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents. Deliver on time & on budget (always) QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 5 years of enterprise level experience in IT QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED: Solid troubleshooting skills. Enterprise experience in maintaining supporting Postgres. Solid skills in SQL. Strong Development skills (Springboot). Configuring builds and deployments on CI/CD tools (Jenkins). Willingness to solve DevOps/Support/Maintenance problems Git. Familiarity with general monitoring principles and tools (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ELK stack). Agile Methodology. Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Github, Service Desk). Containerization (Docker) plus orchestration (Kubernetes or Rancher, OpenShift). Good written and spoken English. Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File, Kafka). Docker Knowledge. Strong Java Script Skils (Angular, React). UX design. Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Java, Angularring Boot, and Angular. PACKAGE & REMUNERATION: Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, applicable banking experience, and previous earnings.

Location: Johannesburg, ZA

Posted Date: 1/23/2025